No Service Chief to date has had the guts to streamline the procedure in conjunction with the Election Commission and ensure every soldier votes in his/her place of posting, observes Lieutenant General Prakash Katoch (retd).
Stepping up his offensive against Narendra Modi, Rahul Gandhi on Saturday alleged that there is a "partnership" between the BJP PM candidate and Adani and accused the industrialist of "funding" the Modi marketing blitz to return "favours".
The move followed after the Central Information Commission had in June held that six national parties -- Congress, BJP, NCP, CPI-M, CPI and BSP -- have been substantially funded indirectly by the central government and were required to appoint Public Information Officers as they have the character of a public authority under the RTI Act.
The Bharatiya Janata Party leader also claimed that the entire controversy was an "international conspiracy by the Left-wing organisations, including Amnesty International," to defame the Narendra Modi-led Central government.
The RTI query revealed that 3,125 security personnel, too, lost their lives tackling the Naxal menace.
The Centre is contemplating a bunch of amendments to its flagship Right to Information Act to stop 'mischievous and frivolous' queries through the right that is aimed at bringing more transparency in government services.RTI activists, however are likely to protest against this move. Activists like Aruna Roy, Nikhil De, Shekhar Singh and Arundhati Roy had already sent an appeal to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh not to amend the RTI Act.
PMO was asked to give details of lobbyists, advisers and representatives of Walmart.
The CPIO had rejected the three RTI queries on the ground that the Rs 10 Postal Order meant for fees for providing the information, was blank in one and in the other two cases, they were made out in favour of the CPIO.
The Commission, however, said expenses incurred during the treatment should be disclosed since they are made from the public exchequer.
The Gujarat high court on Wednesday ordered further probe into the murder of Right To Information activist Amit Jethva in view of allegations made by his father.
He is seeking disclosure of correspondence between the Central Bureau of Investigation and the law ministry and opinion of the attorney general in the case.
In a recent decision, the CIC held that the information provided to the president by various political parties cannot be treated as one emanating from 'fiduciary relationship' and thus cannot be denied under the Act.
In an apparent violation of the Right to Information Act, the Public Information Officer at the Prime Minister's Office has refused to provide information to an applicant, saying he failed to show how it was "useful" to him "either personally, socially or nationally".
Why is the Indian cricket team still using the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) logo which resembles 'Star of India' honour given by the British to their favourite princes in colonial times?
At least one incident of ceasefire violation by Pakistan took place daily along the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir in 2015 and 2016 in which 23 security personnel lost their lives, the home ministry has said in an RTI reply.
On December 16, 2015, the apex court ordered disclosure of the defaulters' list, and upheld a Central Information Commission order to this effect.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi scored 62.3 per cent in his masters in Political Science, Gujarat University's Vice Chancellor M N Patel has said.
The Central Information Commission has asked the Indian army to hand over the court of inquiry, post-mortem and other reports related to the death of Shaurya Chakra awardee Captain Sumit Kohli to his mother Veena Kohli. Captain Kohli's death in 2006 in Jammu and Kashmir was stated to be a case of alleged suicide by his unit. Veena Kohli, a resident of Chandigarh, has been demanding reports and other documents related to the court of inquiry, post-mortem and inquest.
Eight years after it was indicted by the market regulator for 'profiting from advance knowledge' of news website Tehelka's market-moving exposs, brokerage house First Global says it has procured documents under the Right to Information Act that show how the regulator fabricated a case against it.
An RTI query has revealed shocking data on gang rapes in the city considered safe for women!
Yashvardhan Kumar Sinha was appointed as the chief information commissioner on Saturday, according to a Rashtrapati Bhavan statement.
'Why should my vaccine certificate, which I got paying my own money, have the picture of the prime minister?'
'In the last six years, there have been 29,140 fire incidents in Mumbai in which 300 people have died and 925 people have been injured.' 'So, at least 10 to 12 fire accidents take place in Mumbai every day.'
Official sources said the Army committed a 'major mistake' in 2011 on the status of the JCOs.
The govt and the opposition appeared set for a showdown in Parliament's monsoon session.
" ...the military (is) being increasingly drawn into the political discourse, it's being used to win political arguments"
"The mere existence of an investigation process cannot be a ground for refusal of information. The authority withholding information must show satisfactory reasons as to why the release of such information would hamper the investigation process," the court ruled.
Replying to an RTI query the DIG-Prisons said that except for a television set, other facilities were not allowed to her.
For the second time, the Department of Space has declined to give details on why punitive action was taken against former ISRO chief G Madhavan Nair in connection with the controversial Antrix-Devas deal, evoking a sharp reaction from the scientist who said there is "something fishy".
'The prime minister bought spectacles from Germany to see the eclipse, but he cannot see that an eclipse has fallen on the country.'
RTI activist from Hisar says he will consider legal recourse against newspaper that quoted his application on the amount of money spent on Sonia Gandhi's foreign trip. Vicky Nanjappa reports.
In Reserve Bank offices, 59 CVPS machines are used and each machine is operated by a set of five persons under a supervisor who supervises a cluster of machines
Is Nitin Gadkari a businessman or a politician, asked activist Arvind Kejriwal as he went about levelling charges against the Bharatiya Janata Party president at a packed press conference in New Delhi on Wednesday.
The 80-odd projects completed till now are already valued at Rs 14,000 crore.
"Keeping in view the ongoing CBI investigation in the matter, disclosure of information may be withheld for the present, in terms of Section 8 (1)(h) of the RTI Act," the PMO said in reply to an RTI query.
On an RTI query about Narendra Modi's travel expenses during the 2007 women empowerment sammelans, activist Trupti Shah was told that the 'chief minister's expenses may be considered nil' as his office did not mention it in the accounts.
An RTI activist has alleged that Bharatiya Janata Party president Nitin Gadkari did not want her to pursue the irrigation scam in Maharashtra, a charged dismissed as baseless on Thursday by the saffron party which accused the Congress of being behind a disinformation campaign.
A consistent use of RTI will bring about a positive change.
A petition has sought laying down of specific mechanisms to ensure transparency in the process of appointment of CBI director.
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